The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 5
“How happy any man must be who is the master of such lovely creatures!”
Who acts: happy man · What happens: be · To what, where: master
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happy man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 happy | advmod |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 master | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 master | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 master | cop |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 master | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 master | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 master | det |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 creatures | case |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 creatures | amod |
| 14 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 creatures | amod |
| 15 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 master | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 master | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 master | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must | any happy man | the master | of such lovely creatures | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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